The Texas Longhorns picked up the biggest road win amongst in-state college football teams so far this year, and as a result, have their largest first-place cushion yet in our “Best in Texas” college football poll. Texas, which escaped Stillwater with a 41-35 win over Oklahoma State Saturday night, now has 15 points in between its next closest competitor — or in the case of this week’s poll, competitors.

Johnny Manziel is having quite the freshman season for Texas A&M. Along with leading them to a 58-10 win over Arkansas this weekend, the Aggie QB also has Texas A&M sharing the No. 2 spot in this week's "Best in Texas" poll.

That’s because for the first time this year, we have a two-way tie for second place. TCU, which has held the No. 2 spot all season long but was less than stellar in an 8-point win over SMU Saturday night, now shares the No. 2 spot with Texas A&M. The Aggies trounced Arkansas 58-10 on Saturday to make up a 10-point deficit from the previous week that sat between TCU and A&M. The impressive showing was enough to give Texas A&M its first first-place vote of the year, too, making the Aggies the fourth team to receive the honor (to date: Texas has received 56, TCU 14, Baylor 2 and A&M now with 1).

That wasn’t the only shakeup in the top 5 in what was easily the “Best in Texas” poll’s busiest week of action. Texas Tech, which has claimed the No. 5 spot each week of voting so far, jumped Baylor to claim the No. 4 spot in this week’s poll. This comes at the heels of the Red Raiders’ 24-13 win on the road against Iowa State to improve to 4-0 on the season.

– Along with Texas A&M and Texas Tech, other risers in this week’s poll were North Texas and Houston. The Mean Green jumped up one spot from No. 8 to No. 7, while Houston went from unranked (and the unranked team receiving the fewest amount of votes) to No. 9 in this week’s poll. This is the first real upward swing for the Cougars this year after debuting in our preseason poll at No. 7. Houston’s three touchdown win over Rice this weekend probably helped that cause.

– Despite having its largest gap between itself and the closest competition at No. 2, Texas actually lost a first-place vote this week. TCU also lost a first-place vote. Texas A&M was the recipient of one of those votes, and the other drop was due to only 10 ballots being cast this week instead of the typical 11.

If Texas Tech QB Seth Doege can help lead the Red Raiders past Oklahoma next weekend, it may be hard to keep Texas Tech out of next week's top 3.

– This was UTSA’s best showing so far this season. It’s their first time being alone at No. 10 this season (UTSA’s only other top-10 appearance this season was in Week 3 when it shared the spot with Houston) and the Roadrunners’ 18 point total was seven more than it had received in any other week this year. UTSA is the only 5-0 team out of “Best in Texas” eligible teams (Texas, TCU and Texas Tech are also still undefeated, but they’ve each had a bye week this season and sit at 4-0).

– Games to watch this week: Texas hosts West Virginia, Texas Tech hosts Oklahoma, Texas A&M travels to Ole Miss and TCU hosts Iowa State. Baylor is the lone top-5 team with a bye. There are a pair of in-state head-to-head battles this week as well: Houston hosts North Texas and UTEP welcomes SMU to town.